That's particularly crucial in the role of Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old with an easy wit - intelligent, wry and pragmatic without being overly cynical. Her mere presence lends an air of authenticity to whatever else is happening onscreen. It's hard to believe it's only been two years and change since Woodley's breakout performance in "The Descendants." Don't you feel like you've known her much longer? Perhaps it's because she's established herself so firmly as one of our most interesting and yet also most grounded, honest young actors.
But there's one major reason that the movie succeeds in this regard. Happily, we can report that "The Fault in Our Stars" is, despite the occasional misstep in tone, largely a solid success - a film that not only manages the transition from page to screen nicely, but also navigates with skill that hugely tricky line between the touching and the trite, the moving and the maudlin.Īnd that latter task ain't easy. Both author and fans have pronounced the movie, directed by Josh Boone, extremely faithful to the novel, but does that make for the optimal cinematic experience? Many films have failed, after all, for adhering too strictly to the written page.
The situation becomes more nuanced, though, for those who haven't read the book. If you're a fan of the wildly popular young-adult book by John Green, and have already shed tears at its story of teenage cancer patients learning about life, love and sex as they fight to stay alive, then you'll be a fan of this movie.īut of course, you probably already have. For its core audience, "The Fault in Our Stars" is essentially critic-proof.
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